A 16-year-old Chinese girl has been accused of starving her mother to death in revenge for being sent to an internet addiction boot-camp.
The girl, from the Heilongjang province in the north of the country, allegedly tied her mother to a chair for a week until she died on September 16.
According to Chinese news site The Paper, the teenager handed herself in at a police station where she has been charged with manslaughter.
Before her mother’s death, the girl, identified in state media by the pseudonym Chen Xin, is said to have tried to extract money from her aunt by sending her videos of her mother being tortured.
By the time her aunt had sent money, Xin realised her mother was already dying and called an ambulance - but it was too late to save her.
Xin had written in blog posts about the torture she suffered at the boot camp, which specialises in treating internet addictions.
She wrote that after being abducted by two men and taken to the facility 600 miles from her home, she was regularly beaten for no reason and forced to eat in front of a toilet as punishment.
